Yola | |
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Forth and Bargy dialect | |
Native to | Ireland |
Region | County Wexford |
Ethnicity | Old English/Hiberno-Normans |
Extinct | c. late 19th century[1][2][3][4] |
Early forms | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | yol |
yol | |
Glottolog | east2834 yola1237 |
Linguasphere | 52-ABA-bd |
Yola, more commonly and historically the Forth and Bargy dialect, is an extinct dialect of the Middle English language once spoken in the baronies of Forth and Bargy in County Wexford, Ireland. As such, it was probably similar to the Fingallian dialect of the Fingal area. Both became functionally extinct in the 19th century when they were replaced by modern Hiberno-English. The word yola means "old" in the dialect.[6] In modern times, there have been efforts to revive the language.
[...] Mr Hore, one of the last speakers of the dialect died in 1897
p. 57: for if the use of this old tongue dies out as fast for the next five and twenty years, as it has for the same by-gone period, it will be utterly extinct and forgotten before the present century shall have closed.
p. 44: In the baronies of Forth and Bargy (Especially in Forth), an area of about 200 sq. miles lying south of Wexford town, isolated by the sea and a long mountain, there lived on until the last century another descendant of the old Kildare English.
After a period of decline, it was replaced entirely in the early nineteenth century by general Irish English of the region.
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